Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hugh was watching them suspiciously from a nearby table . |
| 2 | Puritans like Harley and Dowsing regarded altars , statues , paintings , and stained glass not as aids to religious devotion , but as positive dangers to men 's souls , and they reacted to them rather as a modern-day Jew might do to a beautifully sculpted or painted swastika . |
| 3 | I admire them for being so up front about their religious activity because it puts them right in the front line against anti-Semitism . ’ |
| 4 | This is because frictional drag ( from a boot or a ski , say ) melts them locally to a thin film of liquid water . |
| 5 | The French troops in Saudi Arabia moved up to Hafar al-Batin , some 100 km from the Kuwaiti border , placing them effectively in the front line . |
| 6 | She turned Florence into the field and stood over the milk pails , stirring them slowly with a hazel stick . |
| 7 | Impels me onward through the glowing orbs |
| 8 | He reached beneath the saddle and dipped his fingers in the shelf of scented unguents , then began to smear them delicately about the tiny hole , pushing inward , the unguents working their magic spell , making the muscles relax . |
| 9 | As of the end of June 1991 at least six of these statutes were undergoing the process of appeal which would almost certainly bring them eventually to the Supreme Court , where any of them could serve as the occasion for the reversal of the 1973 landmark abortion rights ruling , Roe v. Wade . |
| 10 | Just as they were about to give up hope of finding their way a huge while wolf appeared , which instead of attacking them began to guide them skilfully through the dark wood . |
| 11 | As conditions were calm and my position at that time left me right for a downwind left join in an easterly direction , I elected to land this way and flew a normal downwind base and approach . |
| 12 | We stood eyeing each other for a few minutes and then to my amazement a jeep came up ; the farmer saw my problem and not only gave me a lift past the bull but took me right to the main road where the bike was . |
| 13 | And he 's he 's turned over this and just gon na slap one on me and I 've turned my head and gone like that and he 's fucking caught me right on the fucking lips ! |
| 14 | He did say to me right in the very beginning basically it 's answering the telephone . |
| 15 | He had always seen them somewhere in the medical field as well as on a rugby pitch . |
| 16 | He sent them all over the Islamic world to kill his enemies . ’ |
| 17 | I 'll judge marmosets if you catch me nicely in a weak moment on the end of a moribund week . |
| 18 | He went into the kitchen and returned with a plate of local delicacies which he offered me together with a little plate , a napkin and a finger-bowl . |
| 19 | Communication policies are changing rapidly , yet there is a need to assess them constantly from an ethical perspective . |
| 20 | They took me all over the Ursuline convent … and to meet the Reverend Mother — an old Irishwoman . |
| 21 | I would recommend them only for the casual observer who wants little apart from views of lunar craters . |
| 22 | Edward gave them only until the following morning . |
| 23 | But at that moment , as Cicely and Guthrie Hepwood came back into the house from the stables , all she knew was that , while she still wanted Naylor , she could not let him make love to her — not in his aunt 's and uncle 's house with them only in the next-door room , for all she knew . |
| 24 | A double bed with two entirely different types of springing to suit the needs of each partner exactly ; to ease them gently into the right positions to keep the spine relaxed and flexible ; to help lift the pressure off bones , muscles , tendons , nerve endings and joints . |
| 25 | Make six small balls out of the red marzipan trimmings , each about the size of a pea , and press them gently into the red base , spacing evenly apart . |
| 26 | He was at peace with her while he reasoned and thought before speaking ; and the lengthening silence had neither weight nor tension , but lay between them gently like the comfortable warmth of a fire . |
| 27 | He took off his spectacles and polished them thoughtfully with a red snuff-handkerchief . |
| 28 | 10.3 The Academic Parties shall , notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement , have a licence to use for the purpose of further internal research and teaching work all the foreground technical information that they themselves have generated together with such of the background and results as is communicated to them hereunder by the other Parties and is necessary for such use of their own result , but such use shall be in conformity with the confidentiality conditions of this Agreement . |
| 29 | With marked reluctance , the elderly woman led them inside to a small sitting-room , which overlooked the garden at the rear of the house . |
| 30 | ‘ We bring them inside in the bad weather . |